Reindexing of the same document

[Renat_Zamaletdinov]

What will happen if we upsert an existing document with the same content and the same id? Will it trigger reindexing? Or it will detect that nothing is changed and will do nothing?

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

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Try it out!

POST test/_doc/1
{
  "value": 1
}

Response;

{
  "_index" : "test",
  "_type" : "_doc",
  "_id" : "1",
  "_version" : 1,
  "result" : "created",
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 2,
    "successful" : 1,
    "failed" : 0
  },
  "_seq_no" : 0,
  "_primary_term" : 1
}

POST test/_doc/1
{
  "value": 1
}

Response;

{
  "_index" : "test",
  "_type" : "_doc",
  "_id" : "1",
  "_version" : 2,
  "result" : "updated",
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 2,
    "successful" : 1,
    "failed" : 0
  },
  "_seq_no" : 1,
  "_primary_term" : 1
}